Gecko Gingrich:"She won an all-expenses paid vacation to Detroit on the show."

It was at this point that I knew this was satire.

CSB time. The funniest trip prize I ever saw anyone win on a game show was in 1979 when the grand prize on The Joker's Wild was a trip to Iran. The show had obviously been taped before the revolution, and the whole time they were showing the video about how cool and exotic Iran was there was a little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen that a substitute prize of equal value would be available for the winner.

Sybarite:Gecko Gingrich: "She won an all-expenses paid vacation to Detroit on the show."

It was at this point that I knew this was satire.

CSB time. The funniest trip prize I ever saw anyone win on a game show was in 1979 when the grand prize on The Joker's Wild was a trip to Iran. The show had obviously been taped before the revolution, and the whole time they were showing the video about how cool and exotic Iran was there was a little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen that a substitute prize of equal value would be available for the winner.

Interesting, I was too young to recall a time when a trip to Iran was as "typical holiday fare" I guess as a trip to Egypt.

Jon Dawson rolls again. It's a source of amusement to me that the best columnist in NC writes for neither the Raleigh nor Charlotte paper, but Kinston. But, since Kinston is the hometown of Jaime Pressley and Maceo Parker, among others, must be something in the water.

For real amusement value, read any crime story in that paper that features a black suspect, then scan the comments section.

Sybarite:Gecko Gingrich: "She won an all-expenses paid vacation to Detroit on the show."

It was at this point that I knew this was satire.

CSB time. The funniest trip prize I ever saw anyone win on a game show was in 1979 when the grand prize on The Joker's Wild was a trip to Iran. The show had obviously been taped before the revolution, and the whole time they were showing the video about how cool and exotic Iran was there was a little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen that a substitute prize of equal value would be available for the winner.

Sybarite:CSB time. The funniest trip prize I ever saw anyone win on a game show was in 1979 when the grand prize on The Joker's Wild was a trip to Iran. The show had obviously been taped before the revolution, and the whole time they were showing the video about how cool and exotic Iran was there was a little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen that a substitute prize of equal value would be available for the winner.

I don't get why they're still offering trips to Mexico on Let's Make A Deal and Price Is Right.

OldManDownDRoad:For real amusement value, read any crime story in that paper that features a black suspect, then scan the comments section.

a few years ago in an upscale phoenix neighborhood, a little tagger crew broke out, and for maybe a month or so was tagging the shti out of this neighborhood. the comments would be like, "farking wetbacks ruining phoenix, send out sherrif joe", "go back to mexico", "what a rich celebration of typical law abiding mexican culture" and so on.....

and then they were caught. some were underage and not named, but the teenage culprits (including a female) were like, "seymour rosenbaum", "moishe lefkowitz", "isaac mendler", "sarah weinstein" and so on.

So far, all I've had to do is remove the peanuts from his peanut M&Ms. I asked him if I should just buy the plain M&Ms instead, but he said plain M&Ms are just out-of-date Skittles the U.S. government is using to brainwash its citizens. What can I say? The man is profound."

Sybarite:CSB time. The funniest trip prize I ever saw anyone win on a game show was in 1979 when the grand prize on The Joker's Wild was a trip to Iran. The show had obviously been taped before the revolution, and the whole time they were showing the video about how cool and exotic Iran was there was a little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen that a substitute prize of equal value would be available for the winner.

Joker's Wild -- I haven't thought of that show in years. It was actually before my time but I had a French teacher in high school who once won a car on that show. She played the tape on the first day of class to introduce herself and celebrate what was apparently her peak in life. Didn't matter if she had every student from the previous year. Tape was going in.

Yes please:OldManDownDRoad: For real amusement value, read any crime story in that paper that features a black suspect, then scan the comments section.

Their paper must be different than ours. In our paper the suspects are either white or unspecified.

Mug shots help in this matter.

rickythepenguin:OldManDownDRoad: For real amusement value, read any crime story in that paper that features a black suspect, then scan the comments section.

a few years ago in an upscale phoenix neighborhood, a little tagger crew broke out, and for maybe a month or so was tagging the shti out of this neighborhood. the comments would be like, "farking wetbacks ruining phoenix, send out sherrif joe", "go back to mexico", "what a rich celebration of typical law abiding mexican culture" and so on.....

Oddly enough, here in the South we rarely see that about Latinos, but the old-time religion about black folks is still practiced. One cute little item I've noticed is using words like "th ug" (yes, with a space in the middle) to talk about black suspects. I suppose the N-word is routinely caught by the filters, and the filters must have been upgraded for "thug," hence the new spelling with the extra space. Isn't that wonderful, the Klan has joined the modern age.

OldManDownDRoad:Yes please: OldManDownDRoad: For real amusement value, read any crime story in that paper that features a black suspect, then scan the comments section.

Their paper must be different than ours. In our paper the suspects are either white or unspecified.

Mug shots help in this matter.

Mug shots only help if they've caught them. More often it's surveillance video pictures. Nonetheless, if it's a white or Asian suspect, they include the race. If it's a black or Hispanic suspect, they don't. They always offer cash rewards if you can provide additional information. I'm tempted to see how much they'll pay if I call in and tell them the suspect's race. It seems like that would be valuable information.

buntz:ZMugg: IIRC the show was 'The Price is Right', and the city was Honolulu (she was obviously Hawaiian).

Well, yeah, we were talking about The Price is Right. But no, it was Honolulu. It was something much less exotic. Like Atlanta, or Chicago.

Which is interesting.... you'd think that they'd switch up the trips based on the people they are inviting up on stage that game. They know who the 9 people are, so, you'd think they'd be able to do a really quick "OK, we don't have anyone from Boston, use the Boston trip, instead of Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, D.C., etc"